Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 19, 2024

An illustration of a man on a beach.

The New Yorker (August 12, 2024): The latest issue features Charles Addams’s “Ascent” – A fresh printing of an age-old gag.

Funny/Unfunny: The Archival Comedy Issue

Do jokes express our otherwise taboo wishes? Or does everyone just need a pie in the face? By Emma Allen

In Search of the World’s Funniest Joke

The semi-serious science of why we laugh. By Tad Friend

Charlie Chaplin and the Business of Living

Chaplin’s epochal fame has tended to obscure the influences and instincts that infused his art with childlike purity.

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